I want the doctor to be nagged, absolutely. Automatic "nagging" of potential drug / drug interaction is one of the easy wins for any EHR style system. Tends to be one of the few examples clinicians nearly uniformly support, too.
Absolutely not an expert, but my first degree was in Medical Radiations (applied science).
Outside of the clinical space, some X-Ray and CT systems use dual energy emmission to have better materials discrimination than you might think, as it isn't just based on density but also Z eff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_nuclear_charge).
Also, there are units that don't spin the tube - an older system that spun a beam to hit a large, circular annode (only a single manafacturer), and at least one modern design that has hundreds of small emitters (https://www.rapiscansystems.com/en/rtt).
I have identical twin boys, nearing 3 1/2 years old.
It's like a double control group, both with the same genes and the same upbringing, right down to nap times, food eaten (or at least offered) etc.
One has always been half a pound or so heavier, and very healthy other than some normal colds / croup from the bio-warfare that is daycare. His twin has eczema, asthma and hayfever. Growing out of it slowly, thank goodness.
There are both typical Aussie boys. Wrestle like bear cubs, couldn't keep them inside if you wanted to, covered in dirt and grass within 5 minutes of putting their shoes on (if you can convince them to) in the morning.
So there you go. It may all have an influence, but there's no single cause.
Well said. Not only can you leave replying to later, but one of the most common time management tips for many managers and most executives is to only read/deal with email twice a day.
The constant interruptions make you feel busier / more involved and therefore more productive, but in reality nearly everyone whose value to a company is more than the bureaucratic equivalent of grinding, you're actually far less effective, which is the more important measure.
Cue the MBA bullshit bingo comments, but there's a lot of logic to it.
20 Annual Leave Days (Vacation) 17 "Personal Days" (Sick, Carer's Leave (kid sick), House Moving etc.) 3 days off during Christmas (in addition to the public holidays) 10+ Standard Public Holidays 5 Days bonus leave because I don't get "flex time" 37.5 hour weeks
Not limited to managers or ICT... It's a famous doctor joke too...
Patient - "Doc, it hurts when I do this"
Doc - "Then don't do that"
It's real though. How often do you get dismissed when the effective management of a condition is deemed to be more of a hassle than just grinning and bearing it? Compained of a bad knee when jogging to be told to stop jogging? Without real assessment, physio referral, or treatment, all of which could lead to the ability to jog (and more) again?
I get how some of these cases would have seemed like a good idea at the time, but the cane toad case always amazes me. An animal that is toxic to touch, let alone eat... How could they have ever thought it would end well?
Crazy dumb idea, even before the punchline that they couldn't jump high enough to eat the damn things we brought them here to control!
I'm an ICT Director in a public health system. I understand the issues, pro's and con's in every approach so I'm not trying to rule on who is right or wrong here. If you're not familiar with the industry, the best way I've seen the issue (drastically) summarised is as follows:-
"Consumers don't want anyone to see their private medical records when they're well - as soon as they're ill, it's assumed everyone already has access, with the only excuse being incompetance".
Good points. Worth noting that Snow Leopard is including technology to offload all sorts of work to the GPU, so the NVIDIA driver might not be the issue when the new version of OSX comes out.
However, if you are planning on using XBMC, be aware that it is CPU bound as far as I know on OSX - it does not off-load anything to the GPU.
Oh yeah... Even if it feels like being a freshly minted graduate again, go to trade shows / job fairs etc.
Getting even 2 minutes of face time with an employer (doesn't even have to be the hiring / HR person or the prospective manager) will give them a chance to realise that even Canadians can in fact speak/understand "Australian", and we don't all wear Akubras and shark's teeth around our necks.
Although it may prove to be a walk in the park for you, in wasn't for me.
Went from Adelaide (Australia) to Toronto (Canada). British citizen, work visa, Masters Degree, years of work history -> not a fricken response to my resume for months.
The friends we made while there explained that they don't trust a foreigner to understand what it's like to work in Canada until you already have... makes it tricky;-) Also seems weird, Toronto is the most multicultural place in the world by some counts. Australia and Canada are both english speaking, multicultural, Commonwealth countries - there are so many similarities but they didn't want to take the risk. So my advice, go straight to a professional recruiter or pay for a similar service to rework your resume and take whatever you can.
An Australian resume is like a brief bio in some ways, educational and work history, what you're now looking for etc. etc. Mine was often 3 pages long here and worked well. In Canada it's a 1 page resume or it's straight to the round filing cabinet. Yes, they'll barely know anything about you, but this way you have a better chance of getting to an interview, where they'll spend the first 10 minutes asking the sort of questions your Australian resume would have answered!
Once you've got the first job, the rest is easy. I started back at level 1 help desk, but jumped 5 levels of management to Director in 2 years. The O/S experience sure as hell helped once back in Australia too. I've tripled the salary I earned before I left Oz only 5 years ago now.
Oh, and socially they'll love ya. Us Aussie's rock, especially in Canada.
Most won't even need to rent. One larger car for carting kids around, especially if one partner is stay at home. Use that one for your road trips. One car just has to get you to and from work... I'd buy a plug in tomorrow if one existed here, without a doubt.
Welcome to Australia! While not all your suggestions are implemented exactly as written, they nearly all play some part down here.
Plans are nearly ALWAYS X dollars for Y speed and Z total GB downloaded. When you hit the limit, you either pay extra per MB, or are throttled to 64kbps or 128kbps (usually the former).
Some providers have different caps for different periods - 40GB or "off-peak" (overnight) and 20GB for peak (60GB total)... but if you go over EITHER limit you are charged.
Some don't count data from their local servers (they have mirrors of game files, shareware software, Open Office if you're lucky and usually run a game server or two). Some don't count data (or count it differently) if it's from a provider they "peer" with.
Some add your upload and your download together to see how close you are to your XGB "cap".
Some give you extra GB per month if you buy THEIR VoIP service, and don't count that traffic in your usage.
Some charge more for a static IP or being able to run a mail server etc.
Thankfully I haven't seen anyone separate out IM etc. yet - and unfortunately (except for the complications) they haven't done the "roll over" bandwidth thing yet.
What I want, other than Korea/Japan type unmetered fibre to your home service for less than I pay for 20GB at 512kbps, is a multi tiered system. First XGB at full speed, next XGB at reduced speed, finally limited to 128kbps but without any new costs or total limit.
Um... millions sold... best rated/reviewed phone in a market that's meant to have been doing this for years... OSX already gaining more mobile OS share than Windows etc. etc.
The reality is that I've yet to see one on this side of the pond
I really think this is the beginning and end of your problem - if you haven't used one, and are fixated on cost vs. feature list, you just don't understand Apple anyway. They are a marvel to use, better plain old phone than I've had in years, perfect synch to my data, all the other features (iPod etc.) just add to it. If you're also going to unlock it, then it's 40% cheaper than anything vaguely comparable here (AUD$600).
Interesting research summary I heard on the radio last night - can't find a link though.
Despite what people think/expect/feel - most don't adjust well to retirement and often it even leads to depression. i.e. People like work more than they think and more than they admit (consciously even believe?). It was further backed up by paging working people at random times to complete a survey about their current mood/outlook etc. Much "better" responses recorded during working hours, than during the relaxing with a beer after the hard day or making the most of a day-off hours.
Core point - Previously some saw / presented IT careers as the way to learn how to do useful stuff with computers. Now the average person under 20 already knows. IT careers are now about how to assist others or support business systems that get useful stuff done.
Not sure that's as attractive an option, or that IT careers are being "sold" in such a way.
The Subservient Chicken campaign was meant to push the message that BK will custom make your burger (sandwich for USasians). The chicken will respond to your every command, just like the BK "kitchen"...
Ugh... did I really just something from that marketing course on slashdot? And it involved a man in a chicken suit!
The lack of 3G in the phone, IMHO, is one of the more critical mistakes that Apple has made
Just because it's "bad", as in it really hobbles the phone, don't think it's a mistake. Just like most things Jobs/Apple does, there's usually reason behind any apparent madness. For instance, we have three likely influences, that mean no 3G may suck, but is likely better than the other options and even less likely to be a mistake:-
- Higher power needs - battery life is an issue as it is, especially given you can't just swap to a spare. No consumer is going to run the equation in their head and say they don't mind low battery life because it's 3G - they'll just dislike the battery life.
- Coverage - obvious but the negatives are even worse when it's not usable in many places. Average consumers aren't going to like the missing out on what it's "meant" to do because they don't have 3G coverage. They won't blame to phone company, they'll blame the iPhone/Apple. Consistent (but slower) service is often better emotionally (across the market generally - not for us maybe;-))
- Data usage - the slower speeds might be the only reason that Apple persuaded AT&T to offer unlimited data as part of all the plans at such a sane rate. Average usage would go up if the speed was better, so AT&T may not have been willing to do the same for 3G. Again, consumers would be pissed if they started to get charged for excess data from using the touted features of YouTube etc, again apportioning some of the blame on Apple.
The overall, holistic picture of the experience is one of the things that differentiates Apple. 3G (at the moment, in the US) would could very well worsen this aspect of the iPhone. Don't forget that fact when you see an individual "bad" decision, feature deficiency, lack of configurability etc. etc. It what's make Apple products Apple products.
So, these things aren't "failures", or "faults", or "mistakes", critical or otherwise. Sure, the product may not meet your needs, so please don't buy, but all these aspects are very likely more well thought out than we have time to dedicate to them.
It only happens that the hardware refuses to run non-signed and/or non-crypted code, even if that code is valid. But the produced binary code it selft *is* valid."
Those company usually try to give a very specific interpretation to what "operating code" means. To their interpretation, it only means that the users should be able to compile a new valid binary.
So, the software is (L)GPL so it needs to be possible to modify it - the hardware isn't covered by that license, so it doesn't have to run anything apple (or whoever) doesn't want it to run. What is wrong with this?
If you redo the software, you are free to run it anywhere else. If you can figure out how, you can hack your specific instance of the hardware and do as you will. Why should they (apple or others) make the hardware subject to fairly much the same rules (do as you want) as the software?
How can we continue to dismiss "GPL is viral" as FUD if this isn't the case?
Sure sounds bad when you first read it, but I'm not sure exactly "why" it's bad, other than it feels like it is;-)
giving each other discounts - What is the difference here between this and other's who make a living as a middleman? KMart might have a clothing manufacturer offering a discount to them compared to some other chain because they like the target market, or know they'll get good volume. Can't intel offer discounts on their chips, greater than just volume discount, to Apple because they'd love the boost to their image? MS prices OEM cheaper to get pre-installed. What differentiates these examples from the one in the FA? Does KMart or Apple have to show us the discount/markup made?
Accenture received more than $735,000 in payments from IBM for "favorable treatment and influence" . This sure sounds worse, as they are Payments rather than discounts. Isn't it the same thing though? I assume they are only payments based on securing sales, so it's just the same discount in a separate transaction. Where is the line drawn?
I'm not encouraging this or claiming it should go unpunished, but I know if I'd been in a management position along the line I don't know how/why I could/should be stopping such things (defensibly).
You initially are not even aware that you have placed some limits on all the possible types of music this person even could like.
I think this is the point where most of these arguments fall over. Few would actually argue that it's not possible, just that from what we know other options are more likely. There IS value in drawing these inferences. What would profiling be without it? Where we would be socially and at work if we couldn't infer probability of one thing from the value of another? This code might be insecure because it's php - that guy might not be a techie 'cos his eyes glazed over when you mentioned LAMP... you don't know any of this, but if you didn't infer it's likely, you'll be at a disadvantage in the real world, where the female gender trait of focusing on the social may be why the more social web we have today is earning more female users. It's not a provable cause, but it's an interesting and likely thread to pull from the data.
There are laws preventing these otherwise logical and useful inferences in specific cases such as race, gender, religion in the context of HR etc. This is what muddies the waters further, as discrimination as defined by assuming something based on something else is a cornerstone of how we all live our lives. (refusing to further refine our picture of someone based on new evidence as it would fall outside of the stereotype is wrong and bigoted though, don't get me wrong here).
I'm amazed how many people think this. People keep saying "it'll play whatever iTunes will. You can add an XviD codec to quicktime, which then enables those files in iTunes so it's gonna be fine". I want to believe, but it doesn't logically follow. Can you play anything extra on your iPod after you add the codec to quicktime?
I know the airport express worked by iTunes transcoding whatever you played into Apple Lossless and streaming that to the device, but I don't believe for a minute that's what AppleTV will do. iTunes is just where it looks for files and finds the metadata. The file is transfered as is, and the decoding happens on the device. How could you possibly stream uncompressed HD over wireless? How could you possibly transcode in real time in order to stream?
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I want the doctor to be nagged, absolutely. Automatic "nagging" of potential drug / drug interaction is one of the easy wins for any EHR style system. Tends to be one of the few examples clinicians nearly uniformly support, too.
Outside of the clinical space, some X-Ray and CT systems use dual energy emmission to have better materials discrimination than you might think, as it isn't just based on density but also Z eff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_nuclear_charge).
Also, there are units that don't spin the tube - an older system that spun a beam to hit a large, circular annode (only a single manafacturer), and at least one modern design that has hundreds of small emitters (https://www.rapiscansystems.com/en/rtt).
Cheers.
How much is a new version of Internet Explorer?
I have identical twin boys, nearing 3 1/2 years old.
It's like a double control group, both with the same genes and the same upbringing, right down to nap times, food eaten (or at least offered) etc.
One has always been half a pound or so heavier, and very healthy other than some normal colds / croup from the bio-warfare that is daycare. His twin has eczema, asthma and hayfever. Growing out of it slowly, thank goodness.
There are both typical Aussie boys. Wrestle like bear cubs, couldn't keep them inside if you wanted to, covered in dirt and grass within 5 minutes of putting their shoes on (if you can convince them to) in the morning.
So there you go. It may all have an influence, but there's no single cause.
Well said. Not only can you leave replying to later, but one of the most common time management tips for many managers and most executives is to only read/deal with email twice a day.
The constant interruptions make you feel busier / more involved and therefore more productive, but in reality nearly everyone whose value to a company is more than the bureaucratic equivalent of grinding, you're actually far less effective, which is the more important measure.
Cue the MBA bullshit bingo comments, but there's a lot of logic to it.
Since Snowleopard, you're better off skipping Entourage completely. All that Exchange integration is now baked right in.
20 Annual Leave Days (Vacation)
17 "Personal Days" (Sick, Carer's Leave (kid sick), House Moving etc.)
3 days off during Christmas (in addition to the public holidays)
10+ Standard Public Holidays
5 Days bonus leave because I don't get "flex time"
37.5 hour weeks
Australia...
Not limited to managers or ICT... It's a famous doctor joke too...
Patient - "Doc, it hurts when I do this"
Doc - "Then don't do that"
It's real though. How often do you get dismissed when the effective management of a condition is deemed to be more of a hassle than just grinning and bearing it? Compained of a bad knee when jogging to be told to stop jogging? Without real assessment, physio referral, or treatment, all of which could lead to the ability to jog (and more) again?
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I get how some of these cases would have seemed like a good idea at the time, but the cane toad case always amazes me. An animal that is toxic to touch, let alone eat... How could they have ever thought it would end well?
Crazy dumb idea, even before the punchline that they couldn't jump high enough to eat the damn things we brought them here to control!
I'm an ICT Director in a public health system. I understand the issues, pro's and con's in every approach so I'm not trying to rule on who is right or wrong here. If you're not familiar with the industry, the best way I've seen the issue (drastically) summarised is as follows:-
"Consumers don't want anyone to see their private medical records when they're well - as soon as they're ill, it's assumed everyone already has access, with the only excuse being incompetance".
Not always true, but it summarises the catch 22.
Cheers.
However, if you are planning on using XBMC, be aware that it is CPU bound as far as I know on OSX - it does not off-load anything to the GPU.
Cheers.
Actually, you don't need to hotwire an airplane. Just disconnect the grounding wires from the magnetos
Bit of cognitive dissonance - You don't hotwire airplanes - Here's how to hotwire an airplane...
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Oh yeah... Even if it feels like being a freshly minted graduate again, go to trade shows / job fairs etc.
Getting even 2 minutes of face time with an employer (doesn't even have to be the hiring / HR person or the prospective manager) will give them a chance to realise that even Canadians can in fact speak/understand "Australian", and we don't all wear Akubras and shark's teeth around our necks.
Cheers.
Although it may prove to be a walk in the park for you, in wasn't for me.
;-) Also seems weird, Toronto is the most multicultural place in the world by some counts. Australia and Canada are both english speaking, multicultural, Commonwealth countries - there are so many similarities but they didn't want to take the risk. So my advice, go straight to a professional recruiter or pay for a similar service to rework your resume and take whatever you can.
Went from Adelaide (Australia) to Toronto (Canada). British citizen, work visa, Masters Degree, years of work history -> not a fricken response to my resume for months.
The friends we made while there explained that they don't trust a foreigner to understand what it's like to work in Canada until you already have... makes it tricky
An Australian resume is like a brief bio in some ways, educational and work history, what you're now looking for etc. etc. Mine was often 3 pages long here and worked well. In Canada it's a 1 page resume or it's straight to the round filing cabinet. Yes, they'll barely know anything about you, but this way you have a better chance of getting to an interview, where they'll spend the first 10 minutes asking the sort of questions your Australian resume would have answered!
Once you've got the first job, the rest is easy. I started back at level 1 help desk, but jumped 5 levels of management to Director in 2 years. The O/S experience sure as hell helped once back in Australia too. I've tripled the salary I earned before I left Oz only 5 years ago now.
Oh, and socially they'll love ya. Us Aussie's rock, especially in Canada.
Cheers.
Most won't even need to rent. One larger car for carting kids around, especially if one partner is stay at home. Use that one for your road trips. One car just has to get you to and from work... I'd buy a plug in tomorrow if one existed here, without a doubt.
Welcome to Australia! While not all your suggestions are implemented exactly as written, they nearly all play some part down here.
Plans are nearly ALWAYS X dollars for Y speed and Z total GB downloaded. When you hit the limit, you either pay extra per MB, or are throttled to 64kbps or 128kbps (usually the former).
Some providers have different caps for different periods - 40GB or "off-peak" (overnight) and 20GB for peak (60GB total)... but if you go over EITHER limit you are charged.
Some don't count data from their local servers (they have mirrors of game files, shareware software, Open Office if you're lucky and usually run a game server or two). Some don't count data (or count it differently) if it's from a provider they "peer" with.
Some add your upload and your download together to see how close you are to your XGB "cap".
Some give you extra GB per month if you buy THEIR VoIP service, and don't count that traffic in your usage.
Some charge more for a static IP or being able to run a mail server etc.
Thankfully I haven't seen anyone separate out IM etc. yet - and unfortunately (except for the complications) they haven't done the "roll over" bandwidth thing yet.
What I want, other than Korea/Japan type unmetered fibre to your home service for less than I pay for 20GB at 512kbps, is a multi tiered system. First XGB at full speed, next XGB at reduced speed, finally limited to 128kbps but without any new costs or total limit.
Um... millions sold... best rated/reviewed phone in a market that's meant to have been doing this for years... OSX already gaining more mobile OS share than Windows etc. etc.
The reality is that I've yet to see one on this side of the pondI really think this is the beginning and end of your problem - if you haven't used one, and are fixated on cost vs. feature list, you just don't understand Apple anyway. They are a marvel to use, better plain old phone than I've had in years, perfect synch to my data, all the other features (iPod etc.) just add to it. If you're also going to unlock it, then it's 40% cheaper than anything vaguely comparable here (AUD$600).
Interesting research summary I heard on the radio last night - can't find a link though.
Despite what people think/expect/feel - most don't adjust well to retirement and often it even leads to depression. i.e. People like work more than they think and more than they admit (consciously even believe?). It was further backed up by paging working people at random times to complete a survey about their current mood/outlook etc. Much "better" responses recorded during working hours, than during the relaxing with a beer after the hard day or making the most of a day-off hours.
Weird, 'eh? Somewhat believable tho'.
Core point - Previously some saw / presented IT careers as the way to learn how to do useful stuff with computers. Now the average person under 20 already knows. IT careers are now about how to assist others or support business systems that get useful stuff done.
Not sure that's as attractive an option, or that IT careers are being "sold" in such a way.
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Ugh... did I really just something from that marketing course on slashdot? And it involved a man in a chicken suit!
Just because it's "bad", as in it really hobbles the phone, don't think it's a mistake. Just like most things Jobs/Apple does, there's usually reason behind any apparent madness. For instance, we have three likely influences, that mean no 3G may suck, but is likely better than the other options and even less likely to be a mistake:-
- Higher power needs - battery life is an issue as it is, especially given you can't just swap to a spare. No consumer is going to run the equation in their head and say they don't mind low battery life because it's 3G - they'll just dislike the battery life.
- Coverage - obvious but the negatives are even worse when it's not usable in many places. Average consumers aren't going to like the missing out on what it's "meant" to do because they don't have 3G coverage. They won't blame to phone company, they'll blame the iPhone/Apple. Consistent (but slower) service is often better emotionally (across the market generally - not for us maybe ;-))
- Data usage - the slower speeds might be the only reason that Apple persuaded AT&T to offer unlimited data as part of all the plans at such a sane rate. Average usage would go up if the speed was better, so AT&T may not have been willing to do the same for 3G. Again, consumers would be pissed if they started to get charged for excess data from using the touted features of YouTube etc, again apportioning some of the blame on Apple.
The overall, holistic picture of the experience is one of the things that differentiates Apple. 3G (at the moment, in the US) would could very well worsen this aspect of the iPhone. Don't forget that fact when you see an individual "bad" decision, feature deficiency, lack of configurability etc. etc. It what's make Apple products Apple products.
So, these things aren't "failures", or "faults", or "mistakes", critical or otherwise. Sure, the product may not meet your needs, so please don't buy, but all these aspects are very likely more well thought out than we have time to dedicate to them.
Cheers.
Those company usually try to give a very specific interpretation to what "operating code" means. To their interpretation, it only means that the users should be able to compile a new valid binary.
So, the software is (L)GPL so it needs to be possible to modify it - the hardware isn't covered by that license, so it doesn't have to run anything apple (or whoever) doesn't want it to run. What is wrong with this?
If you redo the software, you are free to run it anywhere else. If you can figure out how, you can hack your specific instance of the hardware and do as you will. Why should they (apple or others) make the hardware subject to fairly much the same rules (do as you want) as the software?
How can we continue to dismiss "GPL is viral" as FUD if this isn't the case?
I'm not encouraging this or claiming it should go unpunished, but I know if I'd been in a management position along the line I don't know how/why I could/should be stopping such things (defensibly).
I think this is the point where most of these arguments fall over. Few would actually argue that it's not possible, just that from what we know other options are more likely. There IS value in drawing these inferences. What would profiling be without it? Where we would be socially and at work if we couldn't infer probability of one thing from the value of another? This code might be insecure because it's php - that guy might not be a techie 'cos his eyes glazed over when you mentioned LAMP... you don't know any of this, but if you didn't infer it's likely, you'll be at a disadvantage in the real world, where the female gender trait of focusing on the social may be why the more social web we have today is earning more female users. It's not a provable cause, but it's an interesting and likely thread to pull from the data.
There are laws preventing these otherwise logical and useful inferences in specific cases such as race, gender, religion in the context of HR etc. This is what muddies the waters further, as discrimination as defined by assuming something based on something else is a cornerstone of how we all live our lives. (refusing to further refine our picture of someone based on new evidence as it would fall outside of the stereotype is wrong and bigoted though, don't get me wrong here).
I know the airport express worked by iTunes transcoding whatever you played into Apple Lossless and streaming that to the device, but I don't believe for a minute that's what AppleTV will do. iTunes is just where it looks for files and finds the metadata. The file is transfered as is, and the decoding happens on the device. How could you possibly stream uncompressed HD over wireless? How could you possibly transcode in real time in order to stream?